{"id":40410,"date":"2019-08-08T21:23:05","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T21:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40410"},"modified":"2019-08-08T21:23:05","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T21:23:05","slug":"is-pakistan-able-to-counter-indias-move-in-kashmir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40410","title":{"rendered":"Is Pakistan able to counter India&#8217;s move in Kashmir?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\" readability=\"81.2939362795\">\n<p>The disputed territory of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/issues\/indian-administered-kashmir.html\">Kashmir<\/a> has long been a flashpoint in relations between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/india.html\">India<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/pakistan.html\">Pakistan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>New Delhi on Monday exacerbated tensions by revoking special rights from the portion it administers.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan has denounced the move as &#8220;illegal&#8221; and pledged to challenge the move &#8220;politically and legally&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Islamabad has also downgraded diplomatic ties with New Delhi, suspended trade and shut down an express train service to its neighbour. But it said it was not considering the &#8220;military option&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>India contends its Kashmir decision is an &#8220;internal affair&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations has urged both sides to exercise &#8220;maximum restraint&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>But with frictions escalating, can an armed conflict be averted?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter:<\/strong> Mohamed Jamjoom<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sreeram Chaulia &#8211; Professor and dean at the Jindal School of International Affairs<\/p>\n<p>Victoria Schofield &#8211; Author of Kashmir in Conflict: Pakistan and the Unending War<\/p>\n<p>Tariq Pirzada &#8211; Pakistan security analyst<\/p>\n<p><span>Source:<\/span>\u00a0<span>Al Jazeera News<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The disputed territory of\u00a0Kashmir has long been a flashpoint in relations between India and Pakistan. New Delhi on Monday exacerbated tensions by revoking special rights from the portion it administers. Pakistan has denounced the move as &#8220;illegal&#8221; and pledged to challenge the move &#8220;politically and legally&#8221;.\u00a0 Islamabad has also downgraded diplomatic ties with New Delhi,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":40411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}